The short answer
Make a Table ticket type that admits eight, priced for the table. The buyer pays once and is asked for a name and an email for each seat, or leaves them for later. Each seat becomes its own ticket with its own QR, so the eight can arrive separately.
The cap counts seats, not purchases: a room of two hundred is twenty-five tables, or a mix of tables and single seats, and it closes when the seats are gone.
At the door, each guest is scanned or found by name. The one who arrives alone is checked in without the other seven, and the tally shows how many of the table have come.
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- A single seat and a table of eight that admits eight
- The company for the table card, required
- Dietary needs for the whole table
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| Individual seats only | A single ticket type |
| Tables of eight paid by one company, plus single seats | A ticket that admits eight beside a single ticket, on One Ticket |
| Sponsor tables that are not paid for | A free table ticket, so the seats are still counted |
| A seating plan with numbered tables | Your seating plan, from the attendee export |
A table is a ticket that admits eight and counts eight against the room. That is the whole trick.
How it works in practice
| What you set | What it does |
|---|---|
| A Table ticket that admits eight | One payment, eight tickets |
| Names now or later | The buyer fills them in; each seat is its own ticket |
| The cap | Counts seats, tables and singles together |
| A sponsor table | Free ticket type; seats still counted |
| At the door | Each guest scanned or found by name |
One Ticket for a recurring room
Everything below follows from one decision: a series is one object, not a list of dates.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Who came back | After every session: how many came, how many had been before, who is new and who has stopped coming, by name, with an address to write to |
| Subscriptions | One subscription covers every session in a series. Each night's ticket is minted ahead of time |
| Paid out | Every ticket is charged to your own Stripe account. A new account is paid out to your bank two days after each event, once guests have said how it went; after a first clean event it is paid out as it sells |
| Fees | No platform fee on the ticket price. The buyer pays a booking fee: a platform tier of 35c to $1.45 a ticket, then 1.5% of the price above $100, plus card processing. On a $25 ticket that is $1.45 all in, so the buyer pays $26.45. Free tickets cost nothing |
| Refund if it changes | Move the date, start time or place after people have booked and every one of them can refund in full, booking fee included, until it starts, whatever your refund policy says. You are warned before you save, and everyone booked is emailed the new details |
| Refund requests | On a case-by-case event the buyer asks from their ticket. You have 3 days to refund or decline; a request nobody answers goes to One Ticket support, and your payouts are held until it is settled |
| Guest ratings | After each event, ticket holders rate it: stars and a few words. From 5 ratings the average shows under your name on every event page, good or bad. Notes are for you alone, and never say who wrote them |
| Scam protection | Every page is read before it can send an email, and our emails carry none of an organiser's own links or phone numbers. A new organiser's money is held until after the event, and anyone can report an event from its page |
| Verified tick | Earned by selling here: 3 past events, 25 tickets, no chargebacks, no ignored refund requests, and an average of 4 stars once there are 10 ratings. A chargeback or an ignored request takes it away at once |
| Block a person | Block an address from a ticket type, for this event or every one after it. No public list, no conversation at the door |
| Your page | Your colours, your title font, your cover. Nobody else's event on it |
| Import | Paste an Eventbrite link and the title, description, date, venue and ticket types come across |
| Not included | A marketplace. There is no search page and no audience to sell into; the people are the ones you bring |
One Ticket
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